Sentence examples for relatively powerful in from inspiring English sources

Once a poor boy in Israel and a struggling businessman in Los Angeles, he has become relatively powerful in politics and philanthropy.

Our analysis is predicated on two ideas: first, that minorities are relatively powerful in a parliamentary system compared to a presidential system, and second, that presidents have more power with respect to their own coalition than prime ministers do.

The groups left voting will be the relatively powerful in society, and so our politics will become more likely to serve them and their interests, cutting the less fortunate out of the conversation.

These engines were relatively powerful in relation to their weight, but their large frontal areas produced a great deal of drag, and the gyroscopic forces induced by their whirling mass posed serious aircraft-control problems.

Mr. Bilotti, a 45-year-old Staten Island resident, was described by law-enforcement officials as a driver, bodyguard and confidant of Mr. Castellano and as a "captain" in the Gambino crime organization and a relatively powerful figure in his own right.

We see deception in research as involving a trust violation by those in a relatively powerful position (we researchers), in relation to the people we want to study.

Anita F. Hill's comments on the outsider values of Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins (Op-Ed, June 6) create a plausible scenario about these women in relatively powerful positions who used them to steer their institutions in the right direction.

Unless an agreement can be found through early retirement schemes, employers are reluctant to fire these workers because of the threat of a labor dispute with the (relatively powerful) Belgian unions.5 In this context, the introduction of RESSC lowers the productivity-labor cost gap.

But LGBT organizations, the American government and the relatively powerful Armenian diaspora must unite in putting real pressure on the Armenian government to reverse the worrying anti-democratic and fascistic developments that threaten to completely engulf the country.

Such an approach results in a relatively powerful design [ 24].

Fortunately, the range and distribution of BFNE scores during the actual experiment allowed us to test our hypotheses while maintaining the continuity of our data, resulting in a relatively powerful design.